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Starling's N.Z. cousin
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huia
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Huia is a group of true frogs found in Southeast Asia . Many are commonly known as " torrent frogs " after their favorite habitat - small rapid-flowing mountain and hill streams -, but this name is used for many similar-looking frogs regardless of whether ...
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n. A wattlebird, (taxlink Heteralocha acutirostris species noshow=1), endemic to New Zealand's North Island but extinct since the early twentieth century.
Usage examples of huia.
Claire steeped her sciatica in a hot spring, Simon went into his cabin to practise Morse code, and Barbara cooked the midday meal in a hot and primitive kitchen with Huia, the Maori help, in attendance.
Claire murmured conciliatory phrases, Simon shuffled his feet, and Huia in turn shook her head angrily, giggled, and uttered soft apologies.
Or Huia, sitting on the bank behind the house when she should have been scrubbing potatoes, would wave to him and send him a long-drawn-out cry of greeting in his own tongue.
Knowing that she should be in the kitchen with Huia, she pulled off her print, dragged the red lace over her head and looked at herself in the inadequate glass.
Presently Huia came out and gave a suppressed giggle on seeing her great-grandfather.
Now they have quarrelled and their quarrel concerns my great-granddaughter Huia, who is a foolish girl but much too good for either of them.
Eru comes here again you must tell me at once, Huia, and the Colonel will speak to him.
He began to stammer and was actually relieved when, upon the disappearance of Huia, Colonel and Mrs.
He ate a colossal dinner, became increasingly playful with Huia, and, on her final withdrawal, leant back in his chair, sucked his teeth, produced a cigar case and was about to offer it to Gaunt when at last Dr.
Claire and Barbara, assisted in a leisurely manner by Huia, bucketed into their household duties with their customary air of laying back their ears and rushing their fences.
The news was brought to Wai-ata-tapu the following morning by Huia, who rushed in with her eyes rolling and poured it out.
These visitors, with an air of studied nonchalance, walked up and down the verandah, delayed over their tea, and attempted to pump Huia as to the whereabouts of the celebrity.
The hardier among them came provided with autograph books which passed, by way of Barbara, from Huia to Dikon and thence to Gaunt, who, to the astonishment of Mrs.
So insistent did these demands become that at last Huia was dispatched over the hill for definite instructions from old Rua.
It appeared that Huia, stimulated to the point of hysteria by the events of the last twelve hours, was incapable of performing her duties.